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Frostbite · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove AG -- Outro
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PART A
PART F
PART M
PART T
PART AA
PART AD
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAGTAAADA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Frostbite on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-3, toms through bars 4-5, ride through bars 6-7, toms through bars 8-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-30, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-79, 81-87 and 97-99, and 1 more place -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Frostbite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 5, 8, 9, 23, 24 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA, Z -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-21 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-31 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part T -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Frostbite?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Frostbite hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Frostbite?

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 5, 8, 9, 23, 24 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED